Clear Hanging Glass Modern Flower Vase - Bolbo - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto
Clear Hanging Glass Modern Flower Vase - Bolbo - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto

Glass Vases

Bolbo Hanging Glass Modern Clear Flower Vase

$18.75
Hand Blown Glass
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

Build the Arrangement That Looks Harder Than It Was

Pick a vase to anchor the shelf, then add the rest until it reads as curated instead of collected.

The Bolbo is a hanging glass vase built to survive a variable most vases never meet, which is wind. It was made for outdoor weddings, for lawns and clifftops and the open edges of tents, where moving air arrives uninvited and has wrecked more table settings than anyone mentions during the speeches. The answer was weight, set low in the body, so the Bolbo vase swings and rights itself rather than tipping and emptying onto somebody's dress. As a hanging bud vase the proportions run long and thin: a 1-inch bore, 17 inches from cord to base. That geometry favors one tall stem over a crowded handful, and it keeps the whole thing legible from across a room. Nobody notices this sort of problem being solved, which is generally the sign that it was solved properly. Each tube is shaped by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio daily, then weighted and balanced before it is ever hung.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2011
Dimension
  • 1 inch diameter
  • 17 inches tall
Vase Care Instructions

All glass vases in this collection are dishwasher safe for easy cleaning, with one exception: mercury glass vases should be hand-washed only. The silvered mercury finish is a delicate coating rather than a solid color, and dishwasher heat and detergent can dull or strip it over time.

For standard glass vases, just load it in with the rest of the dishes — no special care needed. For mercury glass pieces, wash gently with warm water and mild soap, and dry with a soft cloth rather than letting it air dry with water spots.

Rinse and dry after each use, especially if flower food or cut-stem residue was in the water, so nothing lingers and clouds the glass.
Flowers that Love this Vase
  • Buttercup
  • Dahlia
  • Poppy
  • Freesia
  • Penstemon
  • Nigella
  • Stock
  • Nasturtium
  • Love-Lies-Bleeding
  • Borage

Quick Guide to Building a Floral Arrangement

  1. Pick your vase first
  2. Start with your anchor flower.
  3. Build in odd numbers.
  4. Add height, then fill.
  5. Greenery does the quiet work.
  6. Cut stems at an angle, underwater if you can.
  7. Step back before you decide it's done.
Shipping & returns

Shipping

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  • Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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What people are saying

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Engineered For Wind. Used Indoors Anyway.

Nobody thinks about the ceiling. It is the great unexamined surface of an average home, and it is where this piece ends up, which means the first conversation about it is almost never about flowers. It is about hooks. People send photographs of plasterboard and ask what will hold. They send measurements of pendant lights and ask whether the two will collide. One man in Oregon sent a structural drawing. I want it understood that I found this delightful rather than excessive. What suspension does, once the hook question is settled, is place a flower at a height where nothing else in the room lives. Furniture occupies the bottom third of a wall. Pictures occupy the middle. The upper third sits empty in almost every house, and one stem hanging in it alters the proportions of a small space more than a far larger object standing on the floor would manage. That is a disproportionate return on an inch of glass. There is a secondary effect nobody warns you about, which is that a suspended object moves when the room does, so a door closing at the far end of a hallway sends a slow swing down the cord several seconds afterwards. The cord adjusts because ceilings are not standard and pretending otherwise would be rude to everybody involved.

Chive Studio trimming tulip stems with scissors on a wooden surface, with white, purple, and pink tulips arranged nearby.
How to Cut Flowers Like a Pro:

A (Mostly) Simple Guide to Cutting Your Flowers

So, you’re making an arrangement? Let’s ensure it lives long enough to impress someone—even if it's just you.

  1. Scrub the Scissors: Wash your shears first. Your flowers do not want a side of Dorito dust.
  2. Cut at 45°: Snip stems at an angle. It gives them a straw instead of making them chug from the bottle.
  3. Trim Underwater (Fancy Mode): Cut them submerged to block air bubbles. It’s extra, but they didn’t ask to suffocate.
  4. Ditch Submerged Leaves: Strip anything below the waterline. Unless you are actively going for a swamp aesthetic.
  5. Snip Again if Stale: If they sat out on the counter, trim them again. They need a fresh start (don’t we all?).
  6. Swap the Water: Change it and trim the stems every few days so they don't die immediately.

Voilà! You are now a domestic deity. Go take your Instagram photo before you forget to water them.

Pro Tip: The light does half the work.

Glass catches and bends light in a way ceramic can't. Set the arrangement somewhere it'll get some late afternoon sun, even for an hour, and the water and stems start doing something a solid vase never will.

Perfect Pairs for Any Shelf

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Arguing Its Case From The Wall

The glass vases at Chive come out of the same studio habit that produced everything else here: design the object once, correctly, then resist every opportunity to complicate it. Each one holds stems. None of them hides anything. Suspension is one answer to where a flower belongs. Mounting is another, and the Wall Brick Glass Vase argues its case from the vertical plane rather than overhead.

For When Every Surface Is Spoken For

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. Height is the variable the glass vases collection organises itself around, and this piece occupies the far end of it. Suspended designs answer a question that surfaces constantly: what to do once every horizontal surface is already spoken for, which in most households is most of the year. The remainder of the range climbs from bracket height through squat vessels to towers. Survey your empty volume before your crowded volume.

Cut Stems Are The Reward, Seeds The Longer Game

A packet of Aubergine Jewel Seeds is an odd companion, deliberately. One object holds a stem grown by somebody else; the other is the start of growing your own. Hang this above the windowsill where a seed tray goes and the arrangement explains itself without help. Cut stems are the reward. Seeds are the longer game.

Two Decades Of Objects

Chive has been designing objects since 2004, and a surprising share of the catalogue traces back to somebody asking for something specific. Weddings account for more of that than any other single source. Event florists work under conditions the rest of us never face — outdoors, on deadline, at scale, with no chance to repair anything once guests arrive — and a piece surviving that will survive a kitchen table without complaint. So we listen to them closely. Several items now sitting quietly in domestic hallways were engineered for a lawn in September with weather coming in. They simply never mention it. A brief from a florist is worth four from anybody else, because a florist tells you precisely what broke last time and exactly whose fault that was.

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Frequently asked questions

What should you look for when buying a hanging glass vase online?

Three things: how it hangs, how much sits low in the body, and what stops it spinning. Cord length should be stated outright, not implied, because a piece arriving eight inches short of your hook is useless. Ballast placement matters more than total mass. Check the opening against the stems you genuinely buy. Photographs flatter every suspended design. Measurements do not.

What flowers work best in the Bolbo vase from Chive?

Single tall stems, cut long. Dahlia and poppy both suit it, since the head rides well above the rim and the bare length reads as part of the line rather than a leftover. Freesia and stock hold themselves upright in a narrow bore. Nasturtium and love-lies-bleeding trail downward instead, turning the whole thing into something that moves. Skip anything woody.

What are the Bolbo vase's dimensions for shelf or table display?

The bore measures an inch across and the piece runs seventeen from the top of its cord to the base of the glass. Hung at eye level it wants roughly a foot and a half of clear vertical room, plus nothing underneath you would mind dripping on. It will not stand up unaided on a shelf. This one was built to hang.

Does glass keep flower water fresher in the Bolbo vase?

Glass is inert, so nothing leaches into the water and nothing feeds bacteria the way an unglazed interior will. That is the practical case. The visible case is that you can read the water line and the condition of the stem end without lifting anything out, which means cloudiness registers on day three rather than day six. Transparency works as a warning system.

How often should you change the water in the Bolbo vase?

Every second day for most cut stems, and more often in a warm room. The bore is narrow enough that a bottle brush will not enter, so run warm water in from the top and let it flush through. Fortnightly, half a teaspoon of dry rice with water, shaken hard, scours the inner walls. Rinse it thoroughly once the rice has come out. Rice does the work.

Can the Bolbo vase anchor a dining table or entryway console?

It can, though not the way a centrepiece does. Hung low above the middle of a dining table it pulls attention downward into the room and leaves the surface clear for plates and elbows. Above an entryway console it does something better, filling the dead vertical stretch between table and ceiling that most homes ignore completely. Try three at staggered heights.

Which holds more stems, the Bolbo vase or the Brick vase?

The Brick, comfortably. Its rectangular opening accepts a small handful, whereas the one-inch bore here is honest about wanting a solitary stem. Treat that as a design position rather than a shortfall. Any suspended object loaded with stems grows heavy and unstable, and mass has to go somewhere. Choose the Brick for volume. Choose this for line.

Who designed the Bolbo vase and what inspired its shape?

It came out of a wedding commission in 2011, and the brief was weather. Ceremonies happen on lawns and clifftops where moving air does as it pleases, and suspended arrangements had a habit of tipping their contents onto whoever stood nearest. The shape that solved it drops mass low and keeps the profile narrow, leaving less for a gust to push. Function arrived first.
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